TURKEY VULTURE LANDING ON TREE, PRINCE EDWARD POINT NATIONAL WILDLIFE AREA,MILFORD, ON, 5/20/18

TENNESSEE WARBLER CAUGHT IN MIST NET,PRINCE EDWARD POINT NATIONAL WILDLIFE AREA,MILFORD, ON, 5/20/18

BREEDING MALE BAY-BREASTED WARBLER CAUGHT IN MIST NET, PRINCE EDWARD POINT NATIONAL WILDLIFE AREA,MILFORD, ON, 5/20/18

BREEDING MALE MAGNOLIA WARBLER, PRINCE EDWARD POINT NATIONAL WILDLIFE AREA,MILFORD, ON, 5/20/18

RED-EYED VIREO, PRINCE EDWARD POINT NATIONAL WILDLIFE AREA,MILFORD, ON, 5/20/18

BREEDING MALE BAY-BREASTFED WARBLER, PRINCE EDWARD POINT NATIONAL WILDLIFE AREA,MILFORD, ON, 5/20/18

   We can ID this warbler as a breeding male Bay-breasted Warbler by its chestnut brown crown, throat and sides; whitish patch on back of neck; grey upperparts with two white wingbars: whitish/ buffy underparts; dark eye and black legs.

   The Bay-breasted Warbler breeds in northern North America, specifically in Canada, into the Great Lakes Region and into northern New England.  It is a migratory bird and winter's in northwest South America and southern Central America.

   The Bay-breasted Warbler is a new species to our Photographic Life List, which now stands at 783.

   

COMMON YELLOWTHROAT AFTER BANDING, PRINCE EDWARD POINT BIRD OBSERVATORY,MILFORD, ON, 5/20/18